diff --git a/docs/intro/reusable-apps.txt b/docs/intro/reusable-apps.txt
index dcccd583c09..0e0c9d2ba52 100644
--- a/docs/intro/reusable-apps.txt
+++ b/docs/intro/reusable-apps.txt
@@ -74,11 +74,11 @@ After the previous tutorials, our project should look like this::
                     results.html
             urls.py
             views.py
-        mytemplates/
+        templates/
             admin/
                 base_site.html
 
-You created ``mysite/mytemplates`` in :doc:`Tutorial 2 </intro/tutorial02>`,
+You created ``mysite/templates`` in :doc:`Tutorial 2 </intro/tutorial02>`,
 and ``polls/templates`` in :doc:`Tutorial 3 </intro/tutorial03>`. Now perhaps
 it is clearer why we chose to have separate template directories for the
 project and application: everything that is part of the polls application is in
diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial02.txt b/docs/intro/tutorial02.txt
index 966921f8a5c..4382602c545 100644
--- a/docs/intro/tutorial02.txt
+++ b/docs/intro/tutorial02.txt
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ system.
 Customizing your *project's* templates
 --------------------------------------
 
-Create a ``mytemplates`` directory in your project directory. Templates can
+Create a ``templates`` directory in your project directory. Templates can
 live anywhere on your filesystem that Django can access. (Django runs as
 whatever user your server runs.) However, keeping your templates within the
 project is a good convention to follow.
@@ -412,13 +412,12 @@ project is a good convention to follow.
 Open your settings file (``mysite/settings.py``, remember) and  add a
 :setting:`TEMPLATE_DIRS` setting::
 
-    TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'mytemplates'),)
+    TEMPLATE_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')]
 
-Don't forget the trailing comma. :setting:`TEMPLATE_DIRS` is a tuple of
-filesystem directories to check when loading Django templates; it's a search
-path.
+:setting:`TEMPLATE_DIRS` is an iterable of filesystem directories to check when
+loading Django templates; it's a search path.
 
-Now create a directory called ``admin`` inside ``mytemplates``, and copy the
+Now create a directory called ``admin`` inside ``templates``, and copy the
 template ``admin/base_site.html`` from within the default Django admin
 template directory in the source code of Django itself
 (``django/contrib/admin/templates``) into that directory.
diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt b/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt
index abc61a23baa..975e3fc6684 100644
--- a/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt
+++ b/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ Django knows to find the polls templates even though we didn't modify
     and it would work perfectly well. However, this template belongs to the
     polls application, so unlike the admin template we created in the previous
     tutorial, we'll put this one in the application's template directory
-    (``polls/templates``) rather than the project's (``mytemplates``). We'll
+    (``polls/templates``) rather than the project's (``templates``). We'll
     discuss in more detail in the :doc:`reusable apps tutorial
     </intro/reusable-apps>` *why* we do this.